Matthew Singer

It’s been an up-and-down year for film, with some heartening success stories, several saddening failures and a few world-conquering blockbusters that make you wonder if the future of movies is just video game adaptations aimed at tweens. But 2025 isn’t over yet. As we push into the chilliest months, Hollywood has saved some of the best – or, at least, biggest – for last, with the second half of one of 2024’s most dominant box-office phenomenons and the latest instalment of a billion-dollar franchise. In between, there’s also 18th century musicals about convulsing religious zealots, a sci-fi action satire featuring Glen Powell running for his life, and Timothee Chalamet making yet another Oscar push, portraying a champion 1950s ping-pong player. Here are the 20 movies we’re most excited to see this winter. Recommended: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025

For a holiday that’s all about family, football and eating yourself into a coma, Thanksgiving gets short shrift. Once the pumpkins hit the bins and the calendar flips over to November, thoughts turn not to turkey and decorative gourds but Mariah Carey and peppermint-scented candles. Thanksgiving is effectively the speed bump on the road to Christmas. So it is no surprise that Thanksgiving movies are hard to come by.  But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few Turkey Day classics out there worthy of annual viewings – movies that, like the Christmas flicks we all know and love, say something about what the holiday represents, at least in the contemporary, slightly ahistorical sense.  What makes a great Thanksgiving movie? As noted, Thanksgiving is predominantly a holiday about family togetherness – and the difficulties of being together as a family. Most great Thanksgiving movies reflect that dynamic, in one way or another. But it’s also important not to wallow in anxiety, no matter how relatable it might be. In fact, many of the best Thanksgiving movies qualify as dark comedies rather than painful trauma-dumps.  What are some great Thanksgiving movies? All that said, the definitive Thanksgiving movie is a screwball road movie that concludes that family is always worth going through hell for. Mixed in are awkwardly tense dramedies, all-star concert films, an underdog sports classic and at least one movie where someone gets bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderiser. All of them a

Updated November 2025: From summer blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the 25 movies our critics think define 2025 so far. Expect prestige dramas, horror gems, wild indies and some surprise streaming hits - all watched and ranked by Time Out’s film team. Quick Picks: 2025’s best films by genre: 😂 Best comedy: The Naked Gun 😱 Best horror movie: Weapons 🥋 Best action movie: One Battle After Another🎭 Best drama: Nickel Boys🪆 Best family film: Flow September brought Splitsville, a whip-smart indie screwball about two couples testing open marriages, The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass’s tense wildfire epic starring an on-form Matthew McConaughey, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. With three quarters of the year gone, a few trends are starting to emerge. Superhero movies aren’t dead, but they’re no longer the guaranteed juggernauts they once were. Family films are booming. Gen Z is generating its own IP. Audiences still crave horror. And China’s home-grown hits are driving the global box office without Hollywood’s help. After years of post-pandemic hand-wringing, the film industry looks to be in better health than anyone expected. Sure, awards season could still change everything, but so far 2025 has given us plenty to celebrate – from genre-smashing auteur vehicles like Sinners and Weapons, to daring experiments such as The Nickel Boys, Flow and Better Man, and welcome returns from directors like Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. In short, it’s been

Horror knows no calendar. Sure, for casual fright fans, October might be considered Spooky Season. But for the genre’s true aficionados, any month, any day – shoot, any hour – is a good time for a scary movie. Be forewarned, though: series like Stranger Things and Midnight Mass notwithstanding, Netflix hasn’t churned out too many of its own upstanding horror flicks, but the platform does have a surprisingly decent amount of terrifying classics, new-school scares and hidden gems, from monster movies to zombie flicks to slashers. Here are the best horror movies currently streaming on Netflix right now.

It’s easy to forget that Halloween is primarily a holiday tailored to children, but Netflix hasn't. While it’s fun to fill the movie queue with adult-level scares, it’s important for parents to reserve some time for more entry-level frights, and the streamer has tons of Halloween-themed content that’s spookily entertaining for the wee ones but won’t have them hiding behind the couch. This October, grab a bowl of candy corn and throw on one of these great not-too-scary but oh-so-fun flicks for a family movie night aimed at the little ghouls in your house.   

Updates for 2025: New monsters are made every year, so we’ve added a few modern beasties we’re sure we’ll be haunting our nightmares for decades to come, including the latest interpretation of Nosferatu, the most grotesque of many abominations in The Substance and the horrifying, multi-mouthed demon from 2022’s Smile.  The movie industry has always been crawling with monsters, and we don’t just mean predatory agents and old-school studio heads. We’re talking about the monsters borne from childhood nightmares, or the deranged imaginations of some very creative adults. We’re talking predatory aliens. We’re talking vampires and werewolves. We’re talking skyscraper-sized apes, sentient globs of carnivorous space goo, interdimensional leather daddies and razor-toothed sewer clowns. In some cases, the monsters of cinema have become as famous as any actor – movie stars unto themselves.  It’s those most iconic beasts, demons and kaiju we’re saluting in this list of the greatest movie monsters of all-time. A few caveats: this list largely follows the same parameters as our monster movies list, meaning that it steers away from non-mutated animals – sorry, Bruce the Shark and the spiders from Arachnophobia – as well as slasher villains such as Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers. But zombies? Trolls? Brundleflies? You’ll find them all below.  Quick picks: 📍 Best vampire: Nosferatu (Nosferatu, 1922)📍 Best kaiju: Godzilla (Godzilla, 1954)📍 Best zombie: Bub (Day of the Dead, 1985) 📍 Best d

November 2025 update: New Emma Thompson conspiracy thriller Down Cemetery Road kicks off another chockers month in streamingland, with the first part of the finale of Stranger Things bringing things to a shadowy end on November 26. New adds to our list include the third part of the BBC’s exceptional Belfast cop show Blue Lights and a couple of notable Netflix sequels.We’ve all heard the phrase ‘TV’s golden age’ enough times over the past couple of decades to get wary of the hyperbole, but this year does seem to be shaping up to be a kind of mini golden age for the TV follow-up. Severance, Andor, Wednesday and Poker Face have all built on incredibly satisfying first seasons with equally masterful second runs. The third season of The White Lotus has proved that, whether you love it or find it a touch too languorous, there’s no escaping Mike White’s transgressive privilege-in-paradise satire. Likewise for season 7 of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian-flavoured sci-fi Black Mirror. More recently, HBO’s Task hit the spot with a blue-collar crime series that wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with Stranger Things coming to an end and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 The Pitt (Emmy Best Drama winner) – watch on HBO Max in the US📍 Adolescence (Best Limited Series winner) – watch on Netflix worldwid

Disney itself may not have produced as many great Christmas movies as you might assume, but at this point, the House of Mouse’s corporate umbrella is wide enough that Disney+ is positively exploding with cinematic holiday treats. Scroll through its library, and you’ll find everything from seasonal classics to original specials to cartoon shorts. Of course, as with any streamer, the sheer volume of content can be overwhelming – and there are quite a few lumps of coal mixed in there.  Thankfully, we’re in a giving mood – ’tis the season, after all. To make it easier to find the platform’s best holiday offerings, we’ve scoured Disney’s vast vault and separated the gingerbread from the fruitcake. Here are the 20 best Christmas movies sure to satisfy the entire family.  Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 The best kids Christmas movies to watch this year✍ The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🐭 The best Disney Christmas movies to stream for the holidays

Update for 2025: It’s been a great year-and-change for horror, so we’ve gone ahead and added some instant-Halloween classics, including the Michael B Jordan vampire blockbuster Sinners, the latest (and perhaps greatest) addition to the Final Destination series and the immensely creepy yet underseen Irish chiller Oddity. Halloween happens only one day every year, but the holiday’s most dedicated devotees always manage to make a month out of it. One way to do that is with movies. And that’s easy to do, considering there’s an entire film genre dedicated to scaring the crap out of audiences.  But contrary to popular wisdom, there’s a difference between the greatest horror movies and the best Halloween movies. A film like, say, Don’t Look Now might be among the most emotionally devastating entries to the horror canon, but it’s perhaps a little too cerebral for spooky season. But zombie apocalypses? Ghost stories? Chainsaw murders? Monster mash-ups? All up for grabs.  So, to help you put together your October queue, we’ve sorted the king-size Snickers from the circus peanuts to make the ultimate Halloween movie watchlist. It’s a list that keeps on growing: we revise every season with yearly standouts, and always find top-flight new additions. These 50 are guaranteed to scare you senseless – in the most fun sense of the phrase. Quick picks: 📍 Best old-school horror: Eyes Without a Face (1960)📍 Best ghost story: Poltergeist (1982)📍 Best found footage horror: The Blair Witch Projec

Updated for 2025: After a banner few years for the horror genre, several recent films have managed to claw their way into our latest update: 2023’s Talk To Me, which remixes genre tropes into something fresh, frightening and zeitgeisty; 2024’s The Substance, easily the most disgusting movie ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar; and 2025’s Sinners, a blockbuster smash that’s far from being just a ‘vampire movie’, while being an extremely awesome vampire movie at the same time. We have also moved Ari Aster's disturbing supernatural drama Hereditary into the top 12, owing to the influence it has exerted on several films to come after exploring grief and buried family secrets. Cinemagoers love a good scare. That much is evident these days from the commercial and critical success of the horror genre: in 2025 alone, the latest instalments of The Conjuring, Final Destination and The Black Phone franchises are among the highest-grossing movies of the year, while wholly original stories like Sinners and Weapons are legitimate box-office phenoms. And that’s not even to mention leftfield Halloween-friendly smashes over the last decade, like A Quiet Place, Hereditary and basically everything Jordan Peele has done.   It’s crazy to think, then, that not long ago, horror was thought of as a euphemism for ‘schlock’. If you were alive at the height of the VHS era, you know it wasn’t totally unfounded. Churning out formulaic slashers and monster movies became a way for hacks and hucksters t

Halloween is for the children. And so, in the run-up to the costuming and candy-gathering festivities, when planning your month-long scary movie marathon, don’t ignore the little ones. If you’re looking for gentle scares that won’t have you washing wet pajamas every night, Disney+ has you covered. You might not link horror with Disney, but even their seemingly placid animated classics contain some unsettling moments. (Think ‘Pink Elephants on Parade’ from Dumbo, or the donkey transformations in Pinocchio.) Here, we’ve compiled 19 of the spookiest movies currently streaming on the platform. Don’t worry: true to the House of Mouse, they’re more fun than frightening overall. Recommended: 🎃 The best Halloween movies for kids of all-ages👻 The best scary movies for kids of all-ages 🐭The best movies to watch on Disney+ right now

It’s beginning to feel a lot like spooky season. The days are gradually getting darker, the air is ever-so-slightly crisper and the smell of pumpkin spice is already wafting through the air. So you know what’s right around the corner: a month-long marathon of horror movies. Depending on when you read this, it might all seem a bit premature. But it’s never too early to start planning your Halloween viewing. Thankfully, Netflix is a veritable pillowcase full of treats, and not just scary movies – though they’ve got a few of those. If you’re looking for something to binge, the streamer has several horror-themed series as well, ranging from the lightly spooky to the downright terrifying. Whatever kind of frights you’re in the mood for, it’s available, and here are the best of them. Recommended: 😱 The best horror movies streaming on Netflix😨 The 100 best horror movies of all-time👹 The 50 best monster movies ever made🔪 The best serial killer movies of all-time

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2025 so far🆕 What’s new on Netflix in November 2025 1. Frankenstein (Netflix) Guillermo del Toro’s childhood passion project is one of the more faithful adaptations of Mary Shelley’s iconic 1818 horror novel, but the director imbues his take with his signature phantasmagoric visual flair and deep emotionality. Oscar Isaac goes full ham as the hubristic doctor, while Jacob Elordi brings new layers of rage and sadness to the monster, underscoring the daddy issues passed down from creator to creation. Read Time Out’s review.  Watch Frankenstein now on Netflix 2. Materialists (HBO Max) Don’t go into Celine Song’s followup to Past Lives expecting the traditional romcom it was marketed as – it’s more of a dissertation on the genre and its values than a true example of it. Dakota Johnson is a matchmaker who finds herself in a love triangle with a wealthy financier (Pedro Pascal) and her working-class ex (Chris Evans). What a problem to have. Read Time Out’s review. Watch Materialists now on HBO Max

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fête trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, après tout : il existe tout un genre cinématographique consacré à l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement à ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie différence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-être parmi les œuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cérébral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantômes, massacres à la tronçonneuse et mélanges de monstres ? Là, on est pile dans le thème. Alors, pour vous aider à composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween à voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse américaine timide intègre une mystérieuse académie de ballet en Europe, où d’étranges phénomènes ne tardent pas à se manifester. Mais ce point de départ simple permet au maître du giallo de s’en donner à cœur joie : couleurs hallucinées, mises à mort stylisées, et bande-son cauchemardesque signée par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinéphiles. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini

November marks the end of an era on Netflix. In a jam-packed month, the biggest event of the calendar is the beginning of the end for arguably the platform’s most well-known cultural commodity, Stranger Things, which drops the first batch of its final eight episodes on the eve of Thanksgiving in America. But that’s far from the only highlight. After a brief theatrical run, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein finally hits the streamer, along with two other films that could make some noise during awards season: the logger drama Train Dreams and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague. There are also documentaries about Eddie Murphy and Selena, the second seasons of two under-the-radar comedy gems, some standout animations, a coming-of-age drama co-written by Anora’s Sean Baker, and Michael Shannon as President James Garfield. What’s new on Netflix November 2025 at a glance: 📍Movies: Frankenstein (Nov. 7), Nouvelle Vague (Nov. 14), Train Dreams (Nov. 21) 📍Shows: Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 1 (Nov. 26), The Vince Staples Show Season 2 (Nov. 6), A Man on the Inside (November 20)📍Limited Series: Death By Lightning (Nov. 6), The Beast In Me (Nov. 13)📍Documentaries: Being Eddie (Nov. 12), Selena y Los Dinos (Nov. 17)  Recommended: 💻 The best Netflix original series to binge📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far) Death By Lightning  A cadre of impressively bearded actors, including Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen and Nick Offerman, come together to dramatise one o

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni même 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’année débarque déjà sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du réalisateur Danny Boyle et du scénariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagé par le tristement célèbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisième volet de la saga entamée en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du réalisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel épisode prend quelques libertés, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des événements du précédent film. Situé près de trois décennies après l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectés en machines à tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dépeint des îles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues à une forme de stabilité, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mère de ce dernier, rongée par une mystérieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitié, en une méditation profondément émouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intégrante de la vie. Porté par une bande-annonce déjà culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonné au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. Côté criti

Well, it didn’t take 28 years, or even weeks, but one of the year’s best horror films is already arriving on a streaming service. 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s return to a world ravaged by the so-called Rage virus, hits Netflix in the United States this coming weekend, on Saturday, September 20. It’s technically the third film in the series, which started with Boyle’s 28 Days Later in 2002 and was followed up in 2007 by 28 Weeks Later, from Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, although the newest movie does much to undo the events of the latter. Indeed set nearly three decades after the onset of the virus, which turns the infected into twitchy, fast-moving killing machines, the movie finds the British Isles quarantined from the rest of the world, having returned to a somewhat stable if primitive way of life. It focuses on one family in particular, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the patriarch, young Alfie Williams as his son, and Jodie Comer as the latter’s mother, who’s suffering from a mysterious illness. What starts as a coming-of-age survival adventure slows in the second half into a deeply emotional meditation on accepting death as a part of life.  Preceded by an all-time great trailer, 28 Years Later arrived in theaters in June and was a box office hit, pulling in $151,244,007 worldwide. It was also a critical favourite, with an 89 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  In a mixed review, Time Out praised the action-fi

Gentlemen, rev your Aston Martins and start shaking those martinis, because a new James Bond is on the horizon. Menthol smoke has not yet started billowing out of MGM Studios – the traditional indication that the next 007 has been chosen – with Daniel Craig’s likely replacement still a mystery. What does this mean for the future of the iconic British spy series and its upcoming 26th instalment? Information is limited, but here’s what we know so far.  What does Amazon MGM Studios’ takeover mean for the next James Bond? After months of rumour and speculation, James Bond finally got a new boss in February 2025. Not M, but Amazon MGM Studios who sealed a deal with 007’s producers, Eon’s Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, to take creative control of the franchise.  Broccoli and Wilson will remain co-owners of James Bond but crucially, will step back from controlling the future direction or execution of the franchise. ‘With the conclusion of No Time to Die and Michael retiring from the films, I feel it is time to focus on my other projects,’ Broccoli said in a statement.So what does it all mean for 007? We’re probably a step closer to a release date for Bond 26 and the announcement of a new James Bond to star in it. Maybe a radical change of direction for the whole franchise, too, with immediate speculation that Amazon will look to spin their expensive new IP into the kind of shared universe storytelling that Disney pursued with Lucasfilm and Star Wars after its takeover. Is a

Look! Up on the TV screen! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Only five weeks after its theatrical release, James Gunn’s reboot of DC Comics’ most legendary superhero is now available for streaming. Normally, the quick move to video on demand would indicate poor box office performance, but Superman is a certified hit, grossing $500 million worldwide to date. Instead, Gunn says the move was strategic, to give audiences the chance to watch before the premiere of Season 2 of The Peacemaker on HBO – and if you’ve seen the film, you’ll recognise the connection to the series. In addition to being the highest-grossing superhero movie of the year, Superman was also a critical hit: it currently holds an 83 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In a mixed review, TimeOut praised David Corenswet’s performance as the Last Son of Krypton, praising the ‘lovely balance of sweetness, strength and self-doubt bubbling beneath the surface’ he brings to the role. And we mustn’t forget Krypto the superdog, ‘a sidekick whose lack of proper training and licky nature makes him a menace to foes and friends alike.’ Superman is now available to rent or buy on digital services like Prime and Google Play. It’s expected to stream on HBO Max at some point in the future, but given past Warner Brothers releases, that might not be until October. 

Alien: Earth has landed, and it’s spectacular. The series, an eight-episode prequel to the sci-fi horror franchise launched by Ridley Scott in 1979, is one of the most anticipated TV shows of the year. Devised by Fargo’s Noah Hawley, it’s set two years before the events of the first film, following a crew of soldiers investigating a spaceship that’s crash-landed on Earth and brought with it some dangerous cargo.  The first two episodes debuted Aug. 12 on FX and Hulu, and the show is already receiving raves. It has a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it ‘heady’, ‘bone-chilling’ and ‘nothing short of a triumph’. If you’re a fan of the franchise, you’re certainly dying to watch. Here’s how. Where is Alien: Earth airing and streaming? Alien: Earth will air new episodes every Tuesday at 8 pm PT/ET through Sept. 23 on FX, while also streaming on both Hulu and Disney+. If you have a live television streaming service, such as Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, DirecTVor Sling, you can also catch it there. Don’t have any of those services, yet still feel compelled to watch killer xenomorphs wreak havoc on our planet? Luckily for you, Hulu offers a 30-day free trial of its ad-supported plan, meaning if you sign up on Aug. 25, you’ll be able to watch the entire run of the series for free, while also exploring what else the streamer has to offer. (Just make sure to cancel your subscription when the month is up, as it auto-renews at $9.99 per month… but hey, maybe you’

Air travel is a pain, but at least anime fans will soon have extra enticement to get on a plane.  Starting later this year, the streaming service Crunchyroll will partner with Delta to provide the airline with access to its vast library of Japanese animation titles. As first reported by The Wrap, the streamer is curating a collection of 50,000 movies and TV episodes, totalling approximately 25,000 hours of content, available on 169,000 seatback screens. No specific titles have been confirmed.   ‘There is nothing better on a long flight than immersing yourself in the rich storytelling and world-building of anime’, Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll, said in a statement. ‘Fans can go deep on one series or sample one episode of many series – from action to adventure, romance and more’.  Initially started by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduates in 2006, Crunchyroll began as a pirate site focused on East Asian media content before going legit in 2009. The platform is now jointly owned by the US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex.  In addition to the in-flight entertainment, Delta SkyMiles members will have access to special offers, including free 24-hour trials of the Crunchyroll app. Anime aficionados, book your flights now. The best anime movies of all-time, ranked.

Get ready to feel the cold, clammy, extremely convoluted hand of death on your shoulder: Final Destination Bloodlines is coming to streaming this week. The horror hit lands on HBO Max this Friday, August 1, less than three months after arriving in theaters. The sixth film in the series, and first since 2011, far outstripped expectations both commercially and critically. If you’ve seen any of the Final Destination movies, you know they succeed less on plot and character than ridiculously elaborate kills, which are frequently so gory and over-the-top they end up more funny than frightening. Bloodlines has a 93 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes; Time Out’s review called it ‘daft as hell and a heck of a good time’ and praised its ‘minimal reliance on nostalgia’.  Raking in $285 million at the worldwide box office, Bloodlines is the most successful movie in the franchise and the second biggest horror hit of 2025 after Sinners. If you’d like to binge the entire franchise, you can find it on Tubi, Hulu and Max. And if you still have linear cable, HBO is airing the entire run on Saturday, August 2, at the following times: 12.10pm ET – Final Destination (2000)1.50pm ET – Final Destination 2 (2003)3.24pm ET – Final Destination 3 (2006)5pm ET – The Final Destination (2009)6.25pm ET – Final Destination 5 (2011)8pm ET – Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Review: Final Destination Bloodlines is a bloody good time. The best horror movies of 2025 so far.